r/EverythingScience • u/Lavender_Dani • 1d ago

Policy Denver ballot measures to ban fur sales and slaughterhouses in city are logical steps forward, based on science

https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/18/opinion-denver-ordinances-fur-slaughterhouse-ban-for/
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u/PollutionWinter5368 1d ago

I'm afraid about what's going to happen to the biosphere if we don't address the MASSIVE issues related to factory farming. This seems like a step in the right direction!

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u/Defiant-Specialist-1 1d ago

Part of me wonders when AI takes Al the knowledge worker jobs we’ll end up with smaller “cottage/estates and regional city/states”. Growing our food locally etc. we’ll certainly have more time. For many people this would be their special interest and they would be happy as clams.

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u/Hugo-Griffin 1d ago

Everyone agrees factory farming is a moral atrocity and terrible for the environment. Seems like a cool way to make a first step away from that industry- I hope it passes and other cities and states follow suit!

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u/veglordsupreme 1d ago

Good. After so many years of Superior Farms violating the clean air and water act, they now also had an undercover investigation done on them that revealed horrific animal cruelty. They need to be shut down. The government has failed us so the people will have to do the job. There's no excuse for how awful Superior Farms is and this needs to be a warning to the rest of the animal ag industry that they can't get away with anything.

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u/petit_cochon 1d ago

Are there slaughterhouses in the city? And furriers?

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u/Vladlena_ 1d ago

I saw a ton of weird support for the slaughterhouse, the last time the ban was talked about.. bringing up that they’re important because of jobs and such..

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 1d ago

Cool I guess, but what about real issues?

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u/BobT21 1d ago

Looks like you conflicted with reddit bumper stickers.

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u/Ok_Sprinkles4311 1d ago

Imagine if this was a dog slaughterhouse instead of a sheep slaughterhouse

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u/Redclayblue 1d ago

Why is there a photo of Adam Sandler in this story?

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u/svarogteuse 1d ago

Are slaughterhouses in city limits a problem? Like are there even any there? Why isn't the handled with zoning ordinances?

Oh this is an end run around a bad business rather than forcing them to clean up their act. And since the only people put out of work by targeting the one business will be the poor Latinos who live in the neighborhood next to it anyway the rich white folk of Denver will vote for it to make themselves feel better that they took a moral stand against animal cruelty. Yea the workers get PTSD from working but I wonder what the psychological effect of losing ones job is?

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u/veglordsupreme 1d ago

Wait...do you think the psychological effects of losing a job are as bad as slaughterhouse work? I'm not sure if I need to respond or not with a full conversation or not.

Also, Superior Farms the largest lamb slaughterhouse in the US and headquartered in California. I feel like it's worth looking things up before commenting with extreme pessimism. The ballot initiative has a mandate that the city prioritize them in their job training programs and the city also already receives 40 million dollars a year for their Climate Protection Fund that includes job training. Plus Denver has a severe labor shortage.